topic Re: Selecting every 10th observation from a dataset in SAS Programming

Selecting every 10th observation from a dataset

deleted_user — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:53:36 GMT

I would like to create a subset to of data by selecting every 10th record, does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance!!

Re: Selecting every 10th observation from a dataset

data_null__ — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:01:18 GMT

one possibility using SET and POINT.
[pre]
data every10;
do point = 10 to nobs by 10;
set sashelp.shoes point=point nobs=nobs;
output;
end;
stop;
run;
[/pre]

Re: Selecting every 10th observation from a dataset

deleted_user — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:40:36 GMT

Thanks! This is exactly what I needed.